ACGC
University of Victoria

June 2 - June 8, 2010





Update
  Dec. 22, 2009

DATE

TIME

TOPIC

INSTRUCTOR





Wednesday, June 2





3 - 5 PM

Welcome, organization, course overview, introductions
Login and set up accounts; GNOME desktop

Brian Fristensky


5 - 6 PM

Dinner



6:00 - 8 PM

Network-centric computing
Basic Unix commands



8 PM

Adjourn to a local pub for informal discussion






Thursday, June 3





9 - 10:30

UNIX (cond.);
BIRCH - working with sequences: dsDNA, 2 orientations; circular molecules; simulated cloning; restriction maps; pairwise similarity

Brian Fristensky


10:45 - 12:00

Creating sequence datasets: search by name and retrieve; search for similar sequences; extracting features



12 - 13:00

Lunch



1 - 3 PM

Creating sequence datasets (cond.): working with large genomic fragments; creating a non-redundant dataset



3:30 - 6 PM

Multiple sequence alignment
A versatile pipeline for phylogenetic analysis



7 – 9 PM

Open lab






Friday, June 4





9 - 10:00 AM

Genome Canada Bioinformatics Help Desk
Perl unit (structured lab): Perl introduction, required files and paths, a first Perl program : principles, warnings and strict, variables, constants and functions, operators, print

David Wishart


10:00 - 12 PM

Perl and Gene Finding; Gene Statistics



12 - 1 PM

Lunch



1 - 3 PM

Perl and the Web



3:30 - 6 PM

Genome/Proteome/EST annotation



7-9 PM

Open lab






Saturday, June 5





9 - 10:30 AM

Guest lecture and tutorial:


Paul Gordon


10:45 - 12:30 PM









Free afternoon






Sunday, June 6





9 - 10:35 AM

Perl Unit - Regular Expressions

Mark Wilkinson


10:45 - 12 PM

Regular Expressions + LWP::Simple (screen-scraping)



12 - 1 PM

Lunch



1 - 3 PM

Web Services, Taverna, and BioCatalogue



3:30 - 6 PM

BioMoby and myExperiment



7-9 PM

Open lab






Monday, June 7





9 - 10:30 AM

MAGPIE: Automated GenomeAnalysis and Annotation

Christoph Sensen


10:45 - 12:00

Annotation of Genomic DNA and ESTs with MAGPIE



12 - 1 PM

Lunch



1 - 3:30 PM

Bluejay: Customized and Selective Genome browsing

High throughput genome annotation with TimeLogic and GeneMatcher hardware



3:30 - 6 PM

Osprey - high-throughput oligonucleotide design



7-9 PM

Open lab






Tuesday, June 8





9 - 9:30

Where do we go from here? Summary of what we've learned and how to apply it when you go home.

Brian Fristensky


9:30 - 11:30

Remote use of bioinformatics systems

sftp - transferring files to COE account

ssh - remote terminal session at COE

VNC - remote desktop session at COE; configure GNOME desktop



11:30 - 12

Evaluation , feedback and summary